NetSE: Cross-domain Design Tools for Sensor Network and Architecture

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该项目将开发一种名为Sunshine的新工具，以有效支持传感器网络（sensornet）硬件和软件的联合评估和设计。智力优势：传感器成功的一个关键障碍是许多重要应用程序的软件实现过于缓慢和能源方面不切实际。另一方面，专门的硬件实现可以在能源和性能方面比等效的软件实现要好上几个数量级。因此，传感器应用的软硬件联合设计是一种非常有吸引力但尚未被探索的方法。该项目的目标是开发一种名为Sunshine的有效工具来支持这种协同设计。这个项目可能会从根本上改变传感器研究的硬件和软件社区之间的关系。这些社区可以利用Sunshine有效地交换彼此的需求，传播彼此领域的最新技术进步。这种进化变化将极大地提高传感器技术的水平。在当前设计中未被探索的新颖硬件架构和平台可以通过阳光的跨领域设计环境创建和测试。更广泛的影响：作为一个有价值的教育工具，Sunshine还将促进ppi所在机构的研究和教育的持续整合，并使其他机构的课程受益。Sunshine可以作为网络和嵌入式系统工程的实验室实验和课程项目的基础。阳光还提供了创新的跨领域教育的机会。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project will develop a novel tool, named Sunshine, to effectively support joint evaluation and design of sensor network (sensornet) hardware and software. Intellectual Merit: A critical roadblock to the success of sensornets is the prohibitively slow and energy-wise impractical software implementations of many important applications. On the other hand, specialized hardware implementation can outperform, energy-wise as well as performance-wise, equivalent software implementations by orders of magnitude. Hence, the joint software-and-hardware design of sensornet applications is a very appealing, yet unexplored, approach. The objective of this project is to develop an effective tool, named Sunshine, to support such codesign. This project may fundamentally transform the relationship between the hardware and software communities of sensornet research. These communities can use Sunshine to efficiently exchange mutual requirements and spread the latest technology advances in each other's fields. Such evolutionary change will greatly improve the state-of-the-art in sensornet technology. Novel hardware architecture and platforms that are unexplored in current designs can be created and tested through Sunshine's cross-domain design environment. Broader Impact: Serving as a valuable education tool, Sunshine will also foster the continued integration of research and education at the PIs' institution and benefit curriculum at other institutions. Sunshine can serve as the foundation for lab experiments and course projects in networking and embedded system engineering. Sunshine also offers the opportunity for innovative cross-domain education.